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" The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. "
The Lost Cities of Ceylon - Page iii
by Geraldine Edith Mitton - 1917 - 256 pages
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The Mystery of Choice

Robert William Chambers - 1897 - 312 pages
...he raised his eyes he saw that the ferryman was Death. THE KEY TO GKIEF. The moving finger writes, and, having writ, Moves on ; nor all your piety nor...a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it. FITZGERALD. THE KEY TO GRIEF. The wild hawk to the wind-swept sky The deer to the wholesome wold, And...
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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: English, French, German, Italian, and ..., Volume 1

Omar Khayyam - 1897 - 434 pages
...into the Field, He knows about it all — HE knows — HE knows 1 " I.XXVI. The Moving Finger writes ; and, having writ, Moves on : nor all your Piety nor...a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. I.XXVII. For let Philosopher and Doctor preach Of what they will, and what they will not — each Is...
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Gems

Quotations - 1897 - 184 pages
...Task-Master's eye, will work wrong, work unhappily for themselves and you. CARLYLE. The Moving Finger writes ; and, having writ, Moves on ; nor all your Piety nor...a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a word of it. OMAR KHAYYAM. Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee. That is the best government...
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Library of the World's Best Literature: A-Z

Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - Anthologies - 1897 - 668 pages
...down into the Field, He knows about it all — HK knows — HE knows! LXXI The Moving Finger writes; and having writ, Moves on : nor all your Piety nor...a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. LXXH And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling cooped we live and die, Lift not...
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The Complete Poetical Works of Theodore Tilton in One Volume: With a Preface ...

Theodore Tilton - Ballads - 1897 - 884 pages
...bravely — God may then Want thee in heaven ! Amen.' THE DOOMSDA Y BOOK. ' The moving Finger writes, and, having writ, Moves on ; nor all your Piety nor...a line. Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. ' (From the Rubaiyat, an Arabic poem by Omar Khayyam of Khorasan, eleventh century, translated by the...
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Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the Fire Underwriters ..., Issue 28

Fire Underwriters' Association of the Northwest - Fire insurance - 1897 - 312 pages
...PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OF THE PIRE UNDERWRITERS' ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTHWEST: "The moving finger writes; and having writ, Moves on; nor all your piety nor...a line. Nor all your tears wash out a word of it." The' assurance of my belief in these quoted lines enables you to appreciate that I realize my inability...
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Marm Lisa

Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin - Authors, American - 1897 - 218 pages
..."'The moving finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your pietj- nor wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of- it." '? • "Edith says I will hardly know her," said Rhoda. "It is true. The new physician is a genius,...
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Voices of Doubt and Trust

Volney Streamer - Religious poetry - 1897 - 248 pages
...Moving Finger writes ; and having writ, Moves on : nor all your Piety nor Wit 15 Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your...
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The Reformed Church Review

Theology - 1907 - 616 pages
...The Moving Finger writes, and having writ, Moves on; Nor all your Piety and Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it." Likewise, it is the glory of the gospel also, that it knows nothing of those lifeless " substitutionary...
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Monthly Packet

1897 - 728 pages
...be. ' The moving finger %vrites. and having writ Moves on, nor all your piety or wit Can lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it.' It may be that the mental starvation and the stinting of individuality endured by the feminine portion...
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